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Posted by ransley on March 19, 2008, 7:27 am
On Mar 18, 10:11=A0pm, "Stormin Mormon"
> Today I was working in an unheated building. It was a "round house". House=
> set up by the beach, along the edge of a lake. Designed as a summer home f=
or
> the waterfront director of a camp.
>
> Masonry structure, cinder block wall. Probably 20 foot diameter, about 9
> foot ceiling. It was 37F outdoors, and there was a thermometer indoors, sa=
id
> it was 40F.
>
> I lit up a one burner camp stove, Coleman $20 unit from Walmart. I could
> barely feel any difference, in the indoor temp. probably 4,000 or 5,000 bT=
U.
> After a while, the tank got frosty, and the flame went down. I heated the
> tank with a propane torch, and the flame went back up for a few minutes.
>
> After a while, the camp got us a "milk house" heater, and we plugged that
> in. 1500 watts. Which helped a little. By the time I left, it was 50F
> indoors.
>
> What I'd like, some kind of "weed burner" to burn a lot of propane in a
> hurry. Raise the temp from 40 to 60 would be really nice.
>
> It should work on a 16 ounce propane bottle. It's OK to invert the bottle,=
> to feed liquid propane to the burner. Small enough to carry in the van wit=
h
> the rest of my tools. =A0Should be relatively safe, if supervised by an ad=
ult.
> Doesn't necessarily have to be OSHA approved. It's just for occasional use=
.
> Any ideas? Weed burner, maybe?
>
> --
> Christopher A. Young
> Learn more about Jesus
> =A0www.lds.org
> .
No you never invert propane bottles, you should know that, and heating
a propane tank with propane flame is not advised. 16oz wont do much
and as you saw froze. Get a 20 lb and a torpedo heater or a nice 2
burner infrared, the infrared will heat you immediatly and not the
air , direct it at your direction even from 20 ft away and you will be
warm even at 0f
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